It was another weekend, Chen Qiang got up very early, and then hurried to Tianjin City, after breakfast, waited at the door of the bathhouse to change the soup inside, and then went in and took a comfortable shower.

Leaning next to the ruler, Chen Qiang lay quite comfortably in the water, looking up at the ceiling, and from time to time there would be water droplets condensed by water vapor falling on his face.

Not far away, two bathhouse regulars were chatting.

"Fifth brother, I heard that there is another ring in Zhongshan Park, after a while, do you want to take a look?"

"Is there another martial arts competition? What is the reason for this time? ”

"It is said that what kind of sports meeting we are going to hold in Tianjin, not only our Tianjin people, but also people from other provinces will come, and there will be a performance of national arts at that time. This is a long-faced thing, and the major martial arts halls have not broken their heads! ”

Chen Qiang next to him listened to it sincerely, and he knew that what the two were talking about was the 18th North China Games to be held in Tianjin.

The 18th North China Games was held in Tianjin, for this North China Games, Chairman Yu of Hebei Province attaches great importance to it, personally serving as the chairman of the preparatory committee, and the other three vice chairmen are Director Zhou of the Hebei Provincial Department of Education, Mayor Wang of Tianjin, and Zhang Boling, President of Nankai University.

In order to hold the North China Games, the preparatory committee specially raised 400,000 yuan, of which the Hebei Provincial Government raised 200,000 yuan, and the Tianjin Municipal Government raised 200,000 yuan.

In order to compete for the quota of the performance, the martial artists naturally broke their heads, and finally decided to win or lose the competition, and decide who to participate in the martial arts performance at the opening ceremony of the North China Games.

Tianjin finally held a large-scale sports meeting, to be able to perform at the opening ceremony, naturally a very face-raising thing, if the master can go up to compare two strokes, not only for their own sect to carry forward, but also in the future to accept apprentices is also much easier.

After Chen Qiang took a bath, he went to Zhongshan Park with curiosity and watched a few martial arts master competitions.

The competition of this martial arts master is completely different from those martial arts films in later generations.

Those martial arts films of later generations, the two masters fought with all kinds of elegant boxing and leg techniques, one move and one style of dragon flying and phoenix dancing in general, it can be described as a land flying dragonfly and a little water, which can hit the sky from the ground, and then hit the water, and even some martial arts films, martial arts have a mastery of internal strength, and a few lasers can emerge in the hand.

And the real martial arts master competition, there is no such fancy fight at all, often the two masters stand there and confront each other, neither side dares to make rash moves, but just test each other with some small actions.

This kind of temptation may last for a long time, and from a distance, the two people are standing there, and the surrounding spectators are also staring at the two intently, waiting for the moment when the two of them make a move, which makes the surrounding atmosphere extremely dignified.

And once the two sides make a move, it will be lightning, and it will be almost a blink of an eye to distinguish the winner and loser, Chen Qiang is a little far away, and he can't even see the action of the two fighting clearly, and the competition is over.

The people around him applauded again and again, and they didn't know if they could understand it, but Chen Qiang couldn't understand it at all, and after watching a few games, he turned around and left and returned to Nankai University.

On the playground of Nankai University, hundreds of students are rehearsing. When the leader saw Chen Qiang, he immediately trotted over.

"Chen Qiang, the North China Games are about to start, and our cheerleaders are also seizing the time to rehearse, delaying your training." The man spoke.

"Don't delay, you practice yours, I'll practice mine." Chen Qiang replied with a smile.

The person who spoke to Chen Qiang was named Yan Renying, the captain of the Nankai cheerleading team, and his grandfather was Yan Fansun, one of the founders of Nankai University. So Yan Renying has been a celebrity in Nankai since she was a child.

Yan Renying loves drama performances, and the entertainment activities of Nankai University are basically organized by Yan Renying, and in the future he became a reporter of "Ta Kung Pao" in the United States, and has visited the White House many times, and also interviewed the wife of US President Roosevelt, which is also the first time among Chinese journalists.

Chen Qiang glanced at the cheerleaders in Nankai and found that everyone was holding two flags of different colors, a purple flag and a white flag, so Chen Qiang opened his mouth and asked, "Brother Yan, do you want to use the flag to pose?" ”

Yan Renying nodded in surprise: "You can see it!" It's the secret weapon of our cheerleading squad, and I thought about it for a long time. Thanks to the large number of cheerleaders in our cheerleading squad this time, in addition to our Nankai University, students from Nankai Middle School and Nankai Girls' High School also came to help, so that we have eight or nine hundred people. ”

Cheerleaders use flags to pose for words, which is nothing new in the future, such as the North Korean cheerleaders, who can not only pose words, but also pose all kinds of patterns. But in the thirties, there was no such thing as cheerleading posing.

In fact, Yan Renying is indeed the founder of the cheerleading team, and since the Nankai cheerleaders used this method in the North China Games, it quickly attracted many imitators. This type of refueling is the most widely used in the NCAA league in the United States. In the NCAA football and basketball leagues, it's not uncommon to see cheerleaders piecing together a variety of letters in the stands.

For example, there is a classic picture in "Forrest Gump", Forrest Gump plays rugby on the school team, when Forrest Gump rushes forward with the ball, the cheerleaders in the stands will pose a "GO", and when Forrest Gump rushes to the formation area, the word put out by the cheerleaders in the stands becomes "STOP".

Of course, this is also because students are easier to organize, and if it is a commercial game, the audience will sell their own tickets to enter the stadium, and give out a cheerleading T-shirt in the color of the home team, and the fans may not be happy to wear it.

Yan Renying chatted with Chen Qiang about the cheerleading team, and then said: "Our Nankai New Troupe used to have a person named Cao Yu, and later he was admitted to Tsinghua University, he recently created a drama and planned to perform it in Tianjin, if you have time, I will get you a ticket." ”

Hearing the name "Cao Yu", Chen Qiang immediately asked: "The drama you are talking about should not be "Thunderstorm", right?" ”

"You know 'Thunderstorm'? Is Cao Yu so famous, there are no dramas that have been released yet, you all know! Yan Renying said.

"When I went abroad to compete before, I happened to meet a student from Tsinghua University, and he mentioned this drama to me, saying that he had performed it in the drama troupe of Tsinghua University, and the response was very good." Chen Qiang paused, and then said: "This "Thunderstorm" is performed by our Nankai New Troupe, I must go to see it!" ”

"This time it wasn't our Nankai New Troupe to perform, originally Cao Yu found me and wanted the Nankai New Troupe to perform, but I wasn't rehearsing the cheerleaders, so I didn't have time, so I pushed this drama away. Cao Yu found someone else, it seemed that it was performed by the Lone Pine Troupe of the Municipal Demonstration School. Yan Renying replied.

"That's a pity!" Chen Qiang sighed lightly.

"Thunderstorm" is regarded as the best drama in Chinese history, and it has not yet been performed in China at this time, and Nankai New Theater Troupe, as the best drama troupe in Tianjin at that time, would be a pity if it missed the first domestic performance of "Thunderstorm".

Yan Renying opened her mouth and said: "When you say this, it arouses my curiosity, so let's go to Cao Yu and find the script of "Thunderstorm", if it is really great, our new troupe in Nankai will take over this drama!" ”

……

After Chen Qiang started training in the 110m hurdles, he made very rapid progress, which was mainly due to his rich knowledge in the 110m hurdles.

More than two months passed quickly, and the 18th North China Games ushered in the opening day.

This time, the chief referee of the North China athletes is still Zhang Boling, and the director general of the competition is Professor Yuan Dunli, Chen Qiang's colleague in the textbook editing office.

Nanjing's Executive Yuan sent a secretary general surnamed Chu to attend the opening ceremony of the North China Games, and the representative of the Ministry of Education was Hao Gengsheng, in addition to more than 200 gentry and celebrities in Tianjin, as well as diplomats from Britain, the United States, Italy, Japan, and Germany stationed in Tianjin.

The athletes' appearance ceremony began, and as the sports teams entered the venue one by one, applause and cheers rang out again and again. Suddenly, an unexpected scene arises.

When it was reported on the radio that the Northeast team was on the field, people were looking forward to it, and the audience applauded warmly, people suddenly found that the athletes actually walked into the stadium wearing "mourning clothes".

This team composed of Northeast athletes in exile in Beiping, all white shirts and black pants, completely different from the costumes of other provincial teams, when they appeared in front of the audience, the applause stopped abruptly, the audience was silent, and everyone was shocked by this scene.

A few seconds later, the audience erupted in more enthusiastic applause again, and many viewers saw these homeless, homeless, and wandering athletes in the northeast of Guannai, their hearts were suddenly stung, and tears couldn't help but flow.

The white shirt and black pants are "mourning clothes", which is more like the rich white mountains and black waters in the Northeast, which is their hometown!

And that land is now under the iron heel of the Japanese, and the people there are living humiliating under the rule of the Japanese!

Countless people burst into tears, and the feeling of sorrow made every Chinese at the scene feel depressed and humiliated, but at the same time, the unwilling emotions in their hearts became more and more intense.

This atmosphere has also infected those foreign diplomats stationed in Tianjin. But there was one person, but he looked at everything in front of him with a blue expression, and there was a murderous aura in his eyes, as if he wanted to kill all this group of Northeast athletes!

This person was the highest Japanese military commander in Tianjin, the commander of the Japanese garrison Umezu Mijiro.

At this time, Umezu Mijiro can feel the high emotions of the audience around him, which is not something that Umezu Mijiro wants to see. As an aggressor, Umezu Mijiro was not worried that the Chinese would oppose Japan, he was a soldier, and he was even eager to go to war.

Umezu Mijiro worries about the spirit of unity among the Chinese.

And now, at the opening ceremony of the North China Games, when the northeast delegation appeared, Umezu Mijiro could clearly feel that these Chinese on the scene were gradually uniting and twisting into a rope.

At this time, in the stands directly opposite the rostrum, more than 900 members of the Nankai cheerleading squad moved, and the white flag was raised, and then some of the cheerleaders replaced the white flag in their hands with a purple flag, and the purple flag also formed a word:

"No"!

Subsequently, the flag changed, and the cheerleaders posed the second word with the purple flag in their hands:

"Forget"!

The third word, "country," and the fourth word, "shame," also appear one after another.

"Don't forget the national shame"!

The next moment, black and white banners also appeared in the lineup of the cheerleaders:

Don't forget 918!

Don't forget the Tohoku!

Reconquest!

Give me back the mountains and rivers!

In this second, the audience boiled!

"Give me back the Northeast!"

"Resist Japan and save the country!"

Countless shouts rang out from all directions, and the Chinese in the audience all contained tears and shouted hoarsely! That kind of momentum seems to be able to make the mountains and rivers vibrate and make the heavens and the earth change color!

From this moment on, this North China Games is no longer just a sports meeting, the spirit of sportsmanship and the idea of saving the country are fused together, inspiring everyone's heart!

……

Umezu Mijiro's expression became more and more embarrassing, the Chinese want to unite to resist Japan, which is the last thing he wants to see, and the anti-Japanese slogan is also the voice he least wants to hear.

Finally, Umezu Mijiro could not stand the anti-Japanese cries around him, he stood up and ran to the organizer officials to protest.

"You need to stop the cheerleading squads immediately!" Umezu Mijiro said angrily.

"It is their freedom for our students to hold such patriotic movements on their own soil, and outsiders have no right to interfere!" Zhang Boling went back angrily.

"You don't care, don't you? I will immediately lodge a protest with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of your country! Umezu Mijiro snorted coldly and left the scene angrily.

A few hours later, the Japanese consulate's protest was placed on the table of the foreign minister in Nanjing.

……

Secretary General Chu of the Executive Yuan received an order from Nanjing, and then he called Zhang Boling to his office.

"Look at the good things you have done in Nankai, the opening ceremony here has just ended, and the protest letters of the Japanese over there in Nanjing have all reached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!" Secretary-General Chu looked angry.

"What Secretary-General Chu said is that these Japanese are indeed too hateful to make you so angry!" Zhang Boling deliberately pretended to be the same enemy.

Secretary General Chu said in his heart, Zhang Boling, you old guy, are you old and confused, who am I angry with, can't you see it!

However, Zhang Boling is the president of Nankai University after all, and he has a good status in the education circle, and Secretary General Chu can't embarrass Zhang Boling.

Secretary-General Chu was too lazy to argue with Zhang Boling, and if he really did, he might not be Zhang Boling's opponent, so he said directly: "President Zhang, regarding the protest of the Japanese, the Executive Yuan asked me to deal with it immediately, what do you think should be done?" ”

"Dare to ask Secretary General Chu, why did the Japanese protest to our side?" Zhang Boling is still pretending not to know.

"Isn't it because of the national shame that you Nankai University made at the opening ceremony? And those anti-Japanese banners! All of this has made the Japanese unhappy! The Japanese say that you Nankai University are deliberately inciting the masses to hate anti-Japanese sentiments! Secretary-General Chu said.

"Secretary-General Chu, looking for you to say this, did we Nankai University do something wrong? The great rivers and mountains that were gunfought by the Japanese should not be taken back? Can't our students hold patriotic activities! Zhang Boling asked sharply.

"It's not that you can't, it's that you have to pay attention to the way!" Secretary-General Chu also knew that he was at a loss, and his tone was a lot more cowardly.

Subsequently, Secretary General Chu said a lot of things casually, the general content of which is to live in harmony with the Japanese, to maintain friendship between China and Japan, and not to provoke the Japanese, and so on.

The more Zhang Boling listened, the more unpleasant he felt in his heart, and Secretary General Chu's remarks seemed to be on the side of Japan.

What Zhang Boling didn't know was that Secretary General Chu was a loyal follower of President Wang of the Executive Yuan, so he really became a traitor in the future, and he also served as a high-ranking official of the puppet government, and was finally convicted of traitor and executed in 1946.

Secretary-General Chu talked for a long time, and finally gave Zhang Boling an order: "Principal Zhang, since the Japanese have come to protest in writing, then we can't do nothing, I won't punish you Nankai for the time being, but you have to restrain your students well, and don't have any more deviant actions." I hope you will gather all the Nankai students involved in this matter and give them a good admonition! ”

……

The attitude of the Nanjing side on this matter has been very clear, that is, to compromise with the Japanese, and would rather punish those patriotic students than let the Japanese dissipate their anger.

Zhang Boling also lived to be more than 60 years old, and knew the truth that his arms could not reach his thighs, and since the Executive Yuan asked him to "admonish" the students, Zhang Boling could only accept it. If you can't bear it, it will harm Nankai University and those patriotic students.

In order to cope with Nanjing's instructions, Zhang Boling gathered all the students in Nankai and wanted to "admonish" them.

In the face of these patriotic students, Zhang Boling said the first sentence: "You hate it!" ”

The patriotic students were stunned, and their expressions became grim, they didn't expect that Principal Zhang, who was deeply loved by everyone, would say such a sentence. Some people are even eager to refute it, is it wrong to do patriotic activities?

However, Zhang Boling immediately said the second sentence: "You guys hate it so well!" ”

The expressions of the patriotic students suddenly turned cloudy and clear, and they began to applaud one after another.

The applause gradually stopped, and Zhang Boling said the third sentence: "Next time, you will be so annoying!" ”

The cheers rang out violently, and the patriotic students knew that they were doing the right thing, and their principal supported them!

……

Outside the arena, a protest by the Japanese easily forced Nanjing to make a compromise.

In the arena, the athletes are still fighting for honor.

This time, Chen Qiang gave up the 400m event and instead competed in the 110m hurdles.

Although this is Chen Qiang's first time participating in the 110-meter hurdles, no one dares to underestimate Chen Qiang.

Under normal circumstances, the strength of the 110-meter hurdles is not too bad for people who are good at long jump, and there were many long jump and hurdles players at that time, not only in China, but even in the Olympic Games.

Chen Qiang is the world motivation holder in the long jump event and the world record holder in the 100-meter sprint, so according to normal inference, Chen Qiang's level in the 110-meter hurdles event is certainly not weak.

In fact, after two months of training, Chen Qiang's strength in the 110-meter hurdles event has reached the level of future national first-class athletes.

According to the standards of later generations of national track and field athletes, the national first-class athletes in the 110-meter hurdles achieved a standard of 14.73 seconds in electronic timing, and about 14.5 seconds in manual timing, while in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, the gold medalist in the 110-meter hurdles only achieved a time of 14.6 seconds. In other words, if Chen Qiang goes to the Los Angeles Olympics, he can brush up on one more gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles.

To make such progress in just two months, only Chen Qiang can do it. He already has the foundation of sprinting and long jump, his body can adapt to the sport of 110-meter hurdles, and he also has the knowledge of 110-meter hurdles beyond this era, and more importantly, the training space provides ten times the training speed, Chen Qiang trains for two months, which is comparable to other people's training for 20 months.

A person who is an international athlete in the 100m and long jump spends 20 months training the 110m hurdles, and if even a national first-class athlete in the 110m hurdles can't reach the standard, it is better to die directly!

In comparison, the 110-meter hurdles level of domestic athletes is much worse, running to 18 seconds is a good result, running to 17 seconds is the top in the country, and in this North China Games, the best time of the players is only 17.5 seconds.

Chen Qiang, who can run 14.5 seconds, faces an opponent with a best time of only 17.5 seconds, he doesn't need to play his best at all, and he can easily win the championship.

……

At the North China Games, Chen Qiang is still frantically brushing up on gold medals, but for Chen Qiang, the significance of this North China Games is greater than his achievements.

Chen Qiang knew that the North China Games held in Tianjin would be the last North China Games held in old China.

The venue for the next North China Games was set in Beiping, but the Japanese planned the "North China Incident", which led to a sharp decline in the situation in the five provinces of North China, and Beiping could not afford to host the North China Games. When the situation in North China eased somewhat, it was already in 1937, when the Beiping Municipal Government finally decided to hold the 19th North China Games in the month, but in July, Beiping fell, and the North China Games were gone.

Chen Qiang feels that as a traverser, it is also a very meaningful thing for him to be able to witness the North China Games in the last generation. Especially at the opening ceremony, he saw the Northeast team in "mourning clothes", the "don't forget the national shame" posed by the Nankai cheerleading team, and also saw the sportsmanship and patriotism gradually fused together!

Chen Qiang saw that in the face of foreign invasion and national peril, more and more Chinese people finally came to their senses, and they will eventually unite and use their lives to defend the tomorrow of the entire nation!

Chen Qiang is just a small butterfly, and his wings cannot shake the trend of this era.

But Chen Qiang is also a participant in this era, and he is willing to turn into an insignificant wave and plunge into this rolling torrent that is related to the survival of the country and the nation......

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This chapter made me cry when I wrote myself, maybe this kind of plot is too heavy for passing the level, and I have to adjust my mood. On the last day of the month, don't waste it if you have a monthly pass, vote for it, thank you!