The attention was turned to root out remaining pockets of Communist activity in a series of encirclement campaigns.

As a result, the communists disagreed on the strategies that should be taken in countering the upcoming nationalist encirclement campaign.

Instead, in their next encirclement campaign, nationalist took a more prudent method of setting a blockade against the commie base.

At the same time, the Kuomintang were executing another encirclement campaign, involving 25,000 men from fourteen regiments.

Therefore, communists should adopt the same successful strategies proven in the last encirclement campaign, and Mao's idea was accepted by everyone after lengthy debates.

The new leadership could not rid itself of Mao's influence (which continued during the fourth encirclement campaign), which temporarily protected the communists.

In 1933 he participated the anti-communist Encirclement Campaigns.

The first four Encirclement Campaigns of the Chinese Nationalists military were unsuccessful.

The rebellion brought a temporary halt to the central government's Fifth Encirclement Campaign in southeast China.

During this period, the Nationalists tried destroying the Communists by using Encirclement Campaigns.