Hunan–Hubei–Jiangxi Sovietball

Hunan–Hubei–Jiangxi Sovietball was a Comintern and local communist-led liberated zone in the 1930s south of the Yangzi River.

History
Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Sovietball was born in the Chinese Civil War and was part of the Communist side in the war. The Nationalist Forces tried to do one of their Encirclement campaigns on him during the war, but it failed, because the Red 16th army launched a pre-emptive strike on Tongcheng, in December 1930, annihilating an entire regiment of the KMT army just before it could begin the first attack of the campaign.The 16th army, with help of fraternal CSR Soviets, held off danger to the Hunan–Hubei–Jiangxi Soviet until May 1931.