Now that the Red Army was seriously weakened, with less than a battalion of men on the Jinggang Mountains, the Kuomintang army from both Jiangxi and Hunan launched an attack at dawn on August 30 on the mountain stronghold.

• 8月30日凌晨，湘赣国民党两军各一部，乘井冈山守军不足一个营时，进犯井冈山。