In 1987, Xu Liang, the combat hero of the Sino-Vietnamese War, appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and became popular all over the country with a song "Blood-stained Style", and Xu Liang was also sought after by many Chinese people for a time because of this song and his heroic deeds.
After that, as long as Xu Liang appeared on the street, there would be many people gathered around, and even the passengers on the bus would poke their heads out and shout at Xu Liang: "Xu Liang! Xu Liang! "It can be said that the scenery is endless.
But just when Xu Liang's acting career was developing in great strides, he suddenly fell into the vortex of many events such as sky-high asking prices, traitor deserters, and murders in song halls, not only losing all honors, but even his wife and family were separated.
Who is behind all this? What happened to make the battle hero fall into such a situation?
College students who actively join the army
Although China announced its withdrawal from Vietnam as early as 1979, the fighting with Vietnam at the border has not stopped. In 1985, the battle of the two mountains was in full swing, the Lanzhou Military Region was about to take over the stick of the Jinan Military Region and go to the front line to participate in the round battle, and the Shaanxi Artillery Regiment, which was subordinate to the Lanzhou Military Region, was about to follow the military region to open the border.
In order to boost the morale of the soldiers, the commander of the Shaanxi army decided to invite students from the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in Shaanxi Province to perform a grand performance for the soldiers who were about to depart. Xu Liang, who was still a senior at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in Shaanxi Province at that time, also responded to the school's call and followed the school's organization to the army to perform.
Xu Liang, who had just arrived in the army, was deeply attracted by the scene in front of him, the neat and orderly team, the loud trumpet, which were stirring Xu Liang's heart.
When Xu Liang stood on the stage of the performance to sing for the soldiers below, he saw with his own eyes that the thousands of soldiers below, all sitting in a unified posture, as if carved out of a mold, neatly and uniformly, a strong thought emerged from the bottom of Xu Liang's heart to join the army.
As soon as Xu Liang returned to school, he applied for enlistment and wanted to join the army, so Xu Liang became the first batch of college student officers.
On the third day after joining the army, Xu Liang was about to go to the front line with the team, but before that, he had to conduct some pre-war special training for these "recruit eggs".
But since it was a pre-war special training, the natural training intensity was far different from the usual training intensity in the company, Xu Liang later recalled the training content at that time, and also said with "palpitations": "At that time, the training intensity was really large, I had to run 10,000 meters every day, and I was still running mountains, there was no road at all, my feet were full of blood blisters, and I had to let you run with a bag, which was full of bricks, and I had to load 16 pieces, and go back to the bedroom after running every day, and my legs couldn't even climb up the bed, But no matter what you are, tomorrow you have to continue 10,000 meters. ”
But Xu Liang did not think of giving up in this three-month concession, not only persevered, but also won the company's commendation for his excellent performance in special training, but just when Xu Liang was full of joy and thought that he could go to the front, the leader asked him to find him and let him stay in the regiment headquarters, saying: "You are a college student, or you study music, it is a scarce talent cultivated by the country, you can stay in the rear, give full play to your talents, and become a literary and artistic officer." ”
After hearing this, Xu Liang was not happy and said: "The country trained me because the country needs me, and now is the time when the country needs me, I went to the front line to fight, this soldier's talent is not in vain, otherwise what am I wearing this military uniform for?" I can't defend my country at the front, what am I doing in the rear? I don't want to watch my comrades who trained with me throw their heads and spill their blood on the front lines and I do nothing. ”
Xu Liang's words made the leader suddenly speechless, so he had to agree to Xu Liang's request to go to the front. The front line is dangerous, but neither the leader nor Xu Liang expected that the danger could come so quickly.
A warrior who lost a leg
May 2, 1986, was a day that Xu Liang could never forget.
At Xu Liang's strong request, he was sent to a forward combat position, but the closer he got to the front, the more dangerous it became. At this time, the front line of Laoshan, where Xu Liang was located, was in full swing, and the 6th Company of the 417th Regiment of the 139th Division of the 47th Group Army, where Xu Liang belonged, was asked to be responsible for defending several reconnaissance posts at the front of the operation, and Xu Liang and several of his comrades-in-arms were assigned to the No. 1 post of the left 6th position.
According to Xu Liang's later recollections: "The outpost we were at that time was between two mountain gaps, between the foot of the mountain and the mountainside, which was very narrow but very important, because our outpost could directly reach our upper guard post and the surface of the position. ”
After Xu Liang saw the figure, he did not shoot at the first time, but quietly climbed out from the observation port and carefully observed where the figure was going.
After judgment, Xu Liang concluded that this person wanted to attack the upper post, touch the forward position, and not just one person, but three, so he immediately pulled out his grenade and threw it at them, and when the grenade exploded, Xu Liang rushed out as soon as possible, opened fire on the Vietnamese army, and walked while fighting.
After seeing Xu Liang open, his comrades also opened fire on the Vietnamese army, and for a while the Vietnamese troops who were hit by fire from two directions could not figure out the direction, and through the moonlight, Xu Liang saw that these three Vietnamese soldiers had fallen one after another. However, because the Vietnamese army was in a higher terrain than Xu Liang's at that time, after they fell, they were out of Xu Liang's field of vision.
Xu Liang said this when he recalled this: "At that time, because of their high terrain, they couldn't see when they fell, I don't know why, maybe out of excitement, or maybe curiosity, I touched and climbed the slope to see how it went, but what I didn't expect was that the position of the Vietnamese army at that time was a slope top, just on both sides are slopes, as far as you climb to the top of the slope, the bottom is not clear, after I climbed up at that time, my brain reacted to be bad at that time, but the body did not have time to react, The gun went off. ”
Xu Liang described the feeling of being shot at that time as follows: "It felt like being hit by a huge stone, stuffy and painful, I touched my leg, it didn't feel like it was flowing out, but spraying blood outward, following the rhythm of my heartbeat, burst after burst, spraying outward stream by stream." ”
After waking up, Xu Liang learned from his comrades that one of the three Vietnamese soldiers he hit was killed on the spot, and the remaining two were also wounded and killed by their comrades who were chasing. At that time, after seeing Xu Liang fall to the ground, the other soldiers immediately dragged Xu Liang back to the position, and after simply bandaging, they took turns to carry him to the hospital day and night.
But under such a huge amount of bleeding, Xu Liang's left lower limb died of ischemia and had to undergo the amputation of his entire leg, but this was undoubtedly a huge operation.
In the more than two months in the hospital, Xu Liang has undergone nine major surgeries, using 26,000 milliliters of blood alone, which can be said that Xu Liang's body is flowing with the blood of his comrades.
After losing a leg, Xu Liang naturally could not go to the front line, Xu Liang was in a field hospital at that time, full of soldiers who lacked arms and legs and were seriously injured, in such an environment, Xu Liang did not feel that there was any problem.
But when Xu Liang went home, Xu Liang felt inconvenient after losing a leg, the child ran towards him, he couldn't pick it up, and the heavy things in the family had to be carried by his father, who was already sixty or seventy years old, which made Xu Liang, who had always been proud, difficult to accept.
"Vortex after blood staining"
In 1987, Xu Liang was invited to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and sang on both sides of the river with a song "Blood-stained Style", in this year, Xu Liang not only published his two books, but even starred in the TV series with the same name as the song, and also won the title of "National Top Ten Actors".
At that time, Xu Liang could be said to have considerable influence in the country, when Xu Liang told the master to hurry up because he was in a hurry to take a taxi to the train station, but the driver saw that it was Xu Liang, and he was so excited that he couldn't do it, and once ran several red lights in order to reach the train station quickly.
After being stopped by the traffic police, he saw that it was Xu Liang, and the police also let him go all the way, and even after arriving at the train station, in order to let Xu Liang catch the train quickly, he even let the taxi drive the car onto the platform, in Xu Liang's own words: "At that time, it was more privileged than the privileged person." ”
Xu Liang later described it as follows: "At that time, I could do 500 reports a year, it can be said that I had to be outside every day, sometimes I went home after making reports, and all the reporters squatting at the door were crowding to interview me, and at that time all walks of life wrote to me, about 50,000 or 60,000, and there are many more in my home, and I didn't have time to open them to read them." ”
Xu Liang's short words can be said to be a perfect interpretation of that time, combat heroes, acting stars, national idols, red half of the sky.
But it is in response to the old saying that there are many people who are popular.
In December 1987, an article entitled "The Shock Brought by Asking for 3,000 Yuan" was published in a Shanghai newspaper, in which it was claimed that the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee wanted to hold an event, so it wanted to invite a combat hero from Beijing, who was also a well-known singer, to participate in this event, but after finding this combat hero, not only did he have an arrogant attitude, but he still asked for an appearance fee of 3,000 yuan when he opened his mouth, and he was unwilling to lose a single point, although the comrades who came to invite at that time repeatedly explained, I hope it can be less, but this battle hero is always unwilling to let go, and he wants three thousand yuan.
The spearhead of this article is self-evident and points directly at Xu Liang.
As soon as it was published, all major newspapers and periodicals across the country immediately reprinted and discussed this article, and discussions arose one after another about whether the "combat hero" should charge sky-high appearance fees. But what is the truth?
At that time, Xu Liang actually went to participate in the event, not even just one, but participated in three consecutive games, but the appearance fee of the three performances added up to only 1,200 yuan, but an article gave him 3,000 yuan.
After Xu Liang "exploded" this article, he was misunderstood by many people who did not know the truth.
Before this, Xu Liang, as long as he walked on the street, he would be shouted by the masses to pay tribute to him, but after the article was published, Xu Liang himself said: "I can't go on the street, the neighbors openly and secretly say that I am drilling for money, and my son has no one to play with him at school, saying that what kind of father has what kind of son." ”
After suffering such a great grievance, Xu Liang was really unbearable, and immediately filed a lawsuit with the Shanghai Jing'an District People's Court.
After three trials, the court finally ruled in favor of Xu Liang, but at this time, how many people who misunderstood him in the first place still care about the truth? Xu Liang also stopped performing because of this incident.
But the next two things that happened in succession dealt Xu Liang a heavy blow.
In 1997, Xu Liang was invited by a friend to eat at an entertainment venue, during which time the friends together clashed with others. After Xu Liang saw this, he got up and wanted to leave, but he was unable to move, so he called his friend to help take him away.
But as a result, after the friend came, he also participated in the conflict, and finally a brawl occurred, and one of the beaten people was seriously injured, and then died.
Xu Liang was not involved at the time, which can be said to be unrelated, but the media at the time wrote the headline "Combat hero Xu Liang called for people to beat a young man, causing his death."
In order to calm public opinion, the army also locked Xu Liang in confinement for a year, and Xu Liang also divorced his wife and wife by agreement in order not to drag down his wife and children.
But this is not the end, during Xu Liang's confinement, a netizen called "Beiming" posted an article, in which it was claimed that Xu Liang actually committed murder, and Xu Liang's class died in the battle in Vietnam, but Xu Liang escaped from battle, and after being discovered by the squad leader, the squad leader wanted to capture him back for trial, and when he walked to a cliffside, Xu Liang took advantage of the squad leader's lack of attention and pushed his squad leader off the cliff.
But who knew that the squad leader did not die, returned to China after the exchange of prisoners of war between China and Vietnam, and identified Xu Liang, so he announced that he was locked up and actually wanted to be sentenced.
After the release of this article, it attracted many posts from people who did not know the truth, bluntly saying that they would engage Xu Liang's military law, until Xu Liang's squad leader personally came out to clarify that the storm of this matter passed.
postscript
Now Xu Liang rented a house in Tiantongyuan, followed his friends to do a little business, and also enough for his own food and drink expenses, and then mentioned the things of that year, Xu Liang also waved his hand freely and said: "No matter what, it has passed." ”
But the hero should not be forgotten or stigmatized, he stood up when the country needed it, and we should respect and remember the contribution made by him and his comrades.