Like other similar clashes immediately after the end of World War II between the communists and the nationalists in China, this conflict also emerged 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.
Following World War II, like other conflicts involving communists and nationalists in China, this dispute occurred because Chiang Kai-shek recognized that his nationalist regime lacked adequate military forces and transport assets to send its troops into the Japanese-controlled areas of China.