like other similar clashes immediately after the end of world war ii between the communists and the nationalists in china, this conflict also rooted from the fact that chiang kai-shek had realized that his nationalist regime simply had neither the sufficient troops nor enough transportation assets to deploy his troops into the japanese-occupied regions of china. unwilling to let the communists who had already dominated most of the rural regions in china to further expand their territories by accepting the japanese surrender and thus would consequently control the japanese occupied regions, chiang kai-shek ordered the japanese and their turncoat chinese puppet regime not to surrender to the communists and kept their fighting capabilities to “maintain order” in the japanese occupied regions, fighting off the communists as necessary, until the final arrivals and completion of the deployment of the nationalist troops. as a result, most members of the japanese puppet regimes and their military forces rejoined the nationalists.