First encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet

{{Short description|1930 military campaign}}

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{{Infobox military conflict

| conflict = First encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet

| partof = the Chinese Civil War

| image = File:Location of Jingzhou Prefecture within Hubei (China).png

| caption = Location of Honghu, Jingzhou

| place = Honghu, Jingzhou, China

| date = Early December 1930 – end of January 1931

| result = Communist victory

|combatant1={{flagdeco|ROC}} Nationalist China

|combatant2={{flagicon image|中國工農紅軍軍旗.svg}} Chinese Red Army

| commander1 = Xu Yuanquan

| commander2 = He Long

| strength1 = >22,000

| strength2 = 5,000

| casualties1 = 5,000+

| casualties2 = Light|

}}

{{Campaignbox Chinese Civil War}}

The first encirclement campaign against the Honghu Soviet was an encirclement campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government that was intended to destroy the Communist Honghu Soviet and its Chinese Red Army. The Red Army successfully defended their soviet republic against the Nationalist attacks from early December 1930 to the end of January 1931.