Fifth encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet

Fifth encirclement campaign
	Part of the Chinese Civil War
	; Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in 1933
Date	25 September 1933 – 10 October 1934; (1 year, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Jiangxi province
Result	Nationalist victory Jiangxi Soviet eliminated; Red Army forced onto Long March;
Belligerents
Nationalist China National Revolutionary Army; Allied warlords; Supported by:; Germany	Soviet China Chinese Red Army; Supported by:; Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Chiang Kai-shek; Chen Jitang; Chen Cheng; Xue Yue; Gu Zhutong; Tang Enbo; A. von Falkenhausen	Wang Ming; Zhou Enlai; Bo Gu; Otto Braun; Lin Biao; Peng Dehuai
Strength
500,000 under Chiang Kai-shek; 300,000 under Chen Jitang; 200,000 from various; Manchuria; Sichuan; Hunan; Fujian; Guangxi. 1,000,000 total mobilized	70,000-150,000
Casualties and losses
1,000 killed	60,000 killed

The fifth encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet was a series of battles fought during the Chinese Civil War from 25 September 1933, to October 1934 between Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalists (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communists. During this campaign, the Kuomintang successfully overran the communist Chinese Soviet Republic and forced the Communists on the run, an event later known as the Long March.

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