On September 25, 1933, the Nationalist Revolutionary Army launched a fifth military campaign against the Jiangxi province - at the time called the Jiangxi Soviet - to eliminate the unrecongized country in question. The encirclement strategy that General Chiang Kai-shek had adopted from the Kuomintang's German advisors: Hans von Seekct and Alexander von Faulkenhausen was successful, with the Nationalist forces defeating the Chinese Red Army in multiple battles and skirmishes across the province of Jiangxi.