山西新军是中国共产党领导下的一支抗日武装,但创立初期它在建制上隶属于阎锡山的军队系统,形式上“戴着山西帽子”、“说着山西话”,领着阎锡山的军饷,拿着阎锡山的武器。正是由于这种特殊情形,所以共产党对新军的领导,同对八路军和新四军的领导相比,不论是内容上还是形式上, Although the Shanxi New Army was an anti-Japanese armed force under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, it was initially established as an army system under the leadership of Yan Xishan. It formally “wore a Shanxi hat” and “spoke Shanxi.” Pay, holding Yan Xishan’s weapons. It is precisely because of this special situation that the party’s leadership over the new army, compared with the leadership over the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, whether content or formal,