About: Encirclement campaign against the Hunan–Western Hubei Soviet

The encirclement campaign against the Hunan–Western Hubei Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy the communist Hunan–Western Hubei Soviet and its Chinese Red Army in the local region. The Communists' responded by launching the Counter-encirclement campaign at Hunan–Western Hubei Soviet (Chinese: 湘鄂西苏区反围剿), also called by the communists as the Counter-encirclement campaign at Hunan–Western Hubei Revolutionary Base (Chinese: 湘鄂西革命根据地反围剿) (Chinese: 湘鄂西革命根据地反围剿), in which the Nationalist force defeated the local Chinese Red Army and overran the communist base in the southern Hubei and Hunan provinces from November 1930 to January 1931. Since the bulk of the fighting was fought at the second stage of the campaign, concentr