1939年蒋介石领导的国民政府执意发动了第一次反共高潮,阎锡山在这次反共高潮中首当其冲,制造了晋西事变,最后惨遭失败,只能退守晋西一隅。藉此,阎锡山也从抗战初期的联共抗日,演变为反共避战。晋西事变对山西抗战局面产生了不利影响,共产党领导的军队也渐成为山西抗战的中坚力量,国民党中央军也得以进一步深入山西,而日军在晋作战渐感困难。 In 1939, the national government led by Chiang Kai-shek insists on launching the first anti-communist climax. Yan Xishan bore the brunt of this anti-Communist upsurge and created the Shanxi-West Incident. In the end, he failed miserably and only retreated to the corner of western Shanxi. With this, Yen Hsi-shan also evolved from being the anti-Communist communist war in the early days of the war to the anti-communist war. The Shanxi-Xi’an Incident had a negative impact on the anti-Japanese war in Shanxi Province. The army led by the Communist Party also gradually became the backbone of the Shanxi Anti-Japanese War. The Kuomintang Central Army was able to further penetrate Shanxi.