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Chapter 1 Prologue
On the evening of May 1985, 5, BJ.

"Is it possible to lose to Hong Kong, China?" A fan slapped himself hard, but tears fell to the ground with his waving palms.For more than a minute, 7 people fell silent like death.Angry shouts sounded first near the stands of Gongti 18, and then curses flooded from all sides of the stands to the players of the Chinese team who had started to leave the field.The team members walked numbly, and no one dared to look up at the stands.

"Team China! Disband! Team China! Disband!"

"The Chinese team is disbanded! Zeng Xuelin steps down!"

From the moment when the first roar sounded from the stands, such shouts immediately swept all the stands of the Workers’ Stadium. At the last moment, they were staring at the stadium in a daze. They couldn’t believe that the Chinese team would lose to the Hong Kong team at home. The fire in the hearts of the fans was completely ignited.

The inexplicable anger of the fans spread rapidly when they exited the field.There were only about 1000 police officers in this game to maintain order, because no one would have thought before the game that the Chinese Hong Kong team would trigger the darkest night in Chinese football history!
The Chinese youth team players who sat in the stands in casual clothes and watched the game became the first batch of people to be angered. When they left the stadium, they were chased and beaten because they were mistaken for the players of the Chinese national team.

Famous writers Liu Xinwu and Li Yi wrote the reportage "May [-] Long Shot" and "The Tilting Football Field" respectively.Spain's "Aspen" excerpted "May [-] Long Shot", "For the first time in China, a socialist country, 'football hooligans' appeared!"!Reuters reporters immediately spread the news to the world.

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Two days later, BJ Military District.

"I think you have to give me an explanation." A soldier with the rank of lieutenant colonel on the epaulettes looked at the soldier with the rank of second lieutenant on the epaulets sadly: "What made you, the best and calmest officer under my command, join the ranks of thugs who destroyed public facilities! Do you know? If I didn't just pass by there that day and took you away from the police, what would have happened? That would be the biggest scandal in our army! A lieutenant platoon leader, he did not defend our public facilities, but instead Destruction! Where is your military education?"

"Long Yuyun, tell me! What made you lose your cool!"

Long Yuyun, who is 1.9 meters tall, stood straight and did not answer.

The lieutenant colonel stared fiercely into his eyes, and Long Yuyun finally replied: "There is no reason! Battalion Commander, a mistake is a mistake, and I am mentally prepared to bear any consequences!"

"That's what you said." The lieutenant colonel said blankly, "It's okay to suppress it at first, but now..." He pointed to the sky: "The higher-ups already know, I can't suppress it, and you should also be very clear about the consequences of what you do, and at this juncture...you have two choices now."

Long Yuyun looked at his superior, and the lieutenant colonel's eyes became more and more regretful. After all, Long Yuyun was his best platoon leader!
"First, when you are demobilized and go home, we will arrange a place for you to work. There will be no record of this matter in your resume, and no one will know why you were demobilized in the future. You will have a bright future."

"What about the second choice?" Long Yuyun directly ignored this choice.

The lieutenant colonel showed a slight smile: "The second option is to transfer from our army and go to the XJ Agricultural Reclamation Corps...there is an urgent shortage of people there, and they don't care about the stains on your file...In our military region, you can no longer stay, and other military regions...the central government will soon carry out the eighth major disarmament. You can still transfer to the XJ Agricultural Reclamation Corps, but now it is no longer possible, except for the XJ Agricultural Reclamation Corps."

"I choose to go to XJ." Long Yuyun replied immediately.

He is a soldier, and there is no difference between leaving the army and letting him die, so he would rather go to XJ, even if going there means obscurity, far away from the center, danger and sacrifice.

The lieutenant colonel didn't say anything, and waved him away.

"Originally, in this disarmament, there is no problem for you to stay... But why did you make such a mess..." The lieutenant colonel sighed.

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For 20 years, this scene has become the most difficult page for Chinese fans to read. The head coach Zeng Xuelin never got up after this failure. After he resigned as the head coach of the national team, he left the front line of football work. Yun, Liu Haiguang, Gu Guangming, Jia Xiuquan, Wu Qunli and so on.

(End of this chapter)