The third anti-encirclement campaign began.

193 1 08 06: the third counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" began.

193 1 On August 6th (June 23rd of the lunar calendar), the third anti-encirclement war began. After Chiang Kai-shek's second "encirclement and suppression" fiasco, only one month passed. In July, 193 1. 1.30 million troops assembled to launch the third "encirclement and suppression". Chiang Kai-shek personally served as commander-in-chief, rushed to Nanchang to command, and invited German, Japanese and British military advisers to participate in war planning.

Kuomintang troops attacked the central revolutionary base in three ways: Nanchang in the middle, Ji 'an on the right and Nanfeng on the left. They want to use the tactics of advancing into the central revolutionary base area to carry out "encirclement and suppression" Under the command of Mao Zedong, more than 30,000 people of the First Front Army of the Red Army still adopted the policy of luring the enemy into depth and avoiding the main enemy, and attracted seven main divisions of the enemy to advance to the west and northwest of Xingguo with some troops, and the main force moved eastward 193 1 on August 4.

On August 6th, six brigades of the 47th Division were annihilated in Li Antang. On the 7th, the 2nd Regiment of the 54th Division was annihilated in Liangcun, and the 4th Regiment of the 8th Division was annihilated in Huangpi 1 1 Ningdu. 1 93 1 September1day, our army annihilated the ninth division1brigade in Laoyingpan; Eliminate the main force of the 19th Route Army in Gaoxingwei. On June 5438+05, the enemy 5 12 division in Fangshiling was annihilated. In this campaign, * * * annihilated 7 divisions, 17 regiment, captured more than 15 people, and seized 20,000 guns. The third counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" won a great victory.