1937年8月22日,南京国民党政府军事委员会发布命令,将红军改编为“国民革命军第八路军”,简称八路军,直属国民革命军第二总机动部队。中共方面接受了该命令。但在9月11日,国民党当局又宣布将八路军改为“国民革命军第十八集团军”,列入第二战区战斗序列。从表面上看,这似乎仅仅是部队番号的正常 On August 22, 1937, the Nanjing Kuomintang Government Military Commission issued an order to reorganize the Red Army into the “Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army,” or the Eighth Route Army, or the second chief mobile army of the National Revolutionary Army. The CCP accepted the order. However, on September 11, the Kuomintang authorities announced that they would change the Eighth Route Army into the “Eighteenth Army of the National Revolutionary Army,” and they should be included in the battle series of the Second Theater. On the surface, this seems to be only normal for the army’s commando