1928年1月爆发的湘南起义,是中国共产党继南昌起义、湘赣边界秋收起义、广州起义之后领导的又一次较大规模武装起义。这次起义在很短的时间内,席卷湘南10余县,先后参加的农民达百万之众,切断了粤汉交通线,沉重打击了国民党新军阀,建立了苏维埃政权,发展了1万余人的工农革命武装 The uprising in southern Hunan in January 1928 was another large-scale armed uprising led by the Chinese Communist Party following the Nanchang Uprising, the Autumn Harvest Uprising at the Hunan-Jiangxi border and the Guangzhou Uprising. In a very short period of time, the uprising swept over 10 counties in southern Hunan and successively participated millions of peasants. They cut off the traffic lines between Guangdong and the PRC, severely attacked the new Kuomintang warlords, established the Soviet power and developed over 10,000 People’s armed forces of workers and peasants