In the early days, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army all wore "clear sky and white day" hat badges. When the hat badges (the original red five-star cloth hat badges of the Red Army) were replaced in 1937, because they wore the former "enemy" logo, the soldiers of both armies resisted or even fled the troops. The cap badge is provided by Nanjing (Chongqing) according to the cooperation agreement between China and Chongqing. From 65438 to 0940, due to the Southern Anhui Incident, the whole army of the New Fourth Army was furious, and the remaining and rebuilt New Fourth Army basically stopped using this cap badge.

In contrast, the Eighth Route Army was unable to obtain the clear-sky white enamel hat badge that could only be provided by the industrial departments in the Kuomintang-controlled area because of its large expansion after 1940, far exceeding the agreed scale of the three divisions and the ups and downs of cooperation between countries. More and more officers and men only have two German-style mountain hat buttons, but there is no blue sky and white hat badge. This is not caused by "replacing the badge with the buckle" or by political reasons. In fact, after 1940, the Eighth Route Army soldiers were quite free to wear caps, without any regulations or suggestions, and were not included in the evaluation of the class soldiers' discipline. Some soldiers wore hat badges until 1948 was broken.

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The eighth route army:

The Eighth Route Army, formerly known as the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was later renamed the Eighteenth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was subordinate to the battle sequence of the National Revolutionary Army. It is an anti-Japanese force led by China Producers' Party and one of the predecessors of China People's Liberation Army.

1On August 22nd, 937, according to the agreement reached by both sides, the Military Commission of the National Government announced that the main force of the Red Army had been reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and agreed to set up a general headquarters. ?

On August 25th, the Central Military Commission issued an order announcing that the First, Second and Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army and the Northwest Red Army had been reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the former enemy headquarters of the Red Army had been changed to the Eighth Route Army headquarters, with Zhu De as commander-in-chief, Peng as deputy commander-in-chief, Ye Jianying as chief of staff, Zuo Quan as deputy chief of staff, and the General Political Department of the Red Army changed to the Eighth Route Army Political Department.

1 1 In September, the Military Commission of the National Government changed the name of the Eighth Route Army to the No.1 18 Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the general headquarters was changed to the general headquarters, with Zhu De as the commander-in-chief and Peng as the deputy commander-in-chief. However, because the title of the Eighth Route Army has been widely circulated among troops at all levels, it has become a habit to call it the Eighth Route Army within the Eighth Route Army. In a certain range, the Eighth Route Army is still used, and people are used to calling this army the Eighth Route Army. On informal occasions, the title of the Eighth Route Army has always been used. Therefore, the title of the Eighth Route Army has been used for a long time until the late liberation war.

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