Chiang Kai-shek personally visited Nanchang to command the "encirclement and suppression"

On July 1, 1931, Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin took charge of Nanchang, commanding the 23rd division and 3 brigades with a total of 300,000 troops, and launched the third "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Central Revolutionary Base Area and the First Red Army. Chiang Kai-shek personally served as the commander and hired military advisers from Germany, Japan, Britain and other countries. With five divisions of his direct troops as the main force, he adopted the tactics of "long drive straight in" and "separate advance and joint attack", and divided his troops into two groups to launch a pincer-shaped offensive to attack the Red Army base areas in southern Jiangxi and western Fujian in an attempt to destroy the Red Army on the east bank of the Ganjiang River.