The local red army successfully defended this soviet republic against the government attacks from December 1930 through to May 1931.

In addition to obtaining more land, weaponry, money and supplies, the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet force also linked up with the Red 7th Army at the province's border with Guangdong.

The Nationalists were forced to redeploy their troops to face these new, more urgent threats; as a result the planned offensives against the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet.

However, the Red 16th Army launched another round of assaults on the retreating Nationalist troops, annihilating eleven companies.

The Nationalists decided to discontinue the effort and concentrate their energy and resources on other encirclement campaigns against major communist bases - Soviet Republics of much larger size - reasoning that as the larger bases were eliminated the smaller ones would not last long.