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Chapter 424 Activity Shooting Shed

The day after Marin arrived at Lubeck, the day when the Bossa coalition set off, the sky suddenly started to rain continuously. The farmers were naturally happy because God was helping them irrigate the wheat field. However, Marin could not be happy. Because the combs could not be used...

This is a very serious problem, because if Marin's melee gun loses its effect on a rainy day, then the city offensive and defensive battle is a battle of pure cold weapons. The previous offensive and defensive battle in Dublin fully proves this. On a rainy day, Edward's melee gunners completely lost their function and lost their firepower advantage. The rain-proof shed they tried to build was burned by England with rockets when the rain stopped. This detail, Sahi, who was inserted by Marin in Edward's army, has written a detailed report.

Seeing that the Bossa coalition was about to arrive, if the problem of being unable to open fire on rainy days was exposed, Frederick III's shrewdness would definitely take advantage of it.

Therefore, Marin must find a solution in time...

In the drizzle, Marin strolled at the foot of the city walls of Lübeck, checking the soldiers to set up tents on the open space. On the edge of a street, a household had a dispute with the soldiers.

Marin hurried over to see what was going on...

It turned out that because there was no open space at the foot of the city wall, the three soldiers built their tents on the street. It was nothing, but the problem was that their tent blocked the door of a resident... So the dispute happened...

Finally, Marin ordered the soldiers to move the tent away. He personally supervised the three soldiers and carried the small military tent they lived in...

"Take it away..." Ma Lin suddenly thought of something, stood there and started to be stunned...

After a while, Marin slapped his head and laughed:

"Haha, I've come up with a solution!"

Marin realized from the scene just now that since the musketeer only needs to hide the rain when it rains, and when it rains, he can lift the rain-covered place and take it away...

When Edward's army was fighting against the British army, it was a relatively rigid one. It built a rain-proof thatched hut on the city wall. When it rained, it could certainly allow the musketeers to continue shooting. But when it rained, he did not demolish it. The British army saw that it was okay? It directly used English longbowmen to fire rockets and burned the thatched hut. Edward could not keep building thatched hut. After all, there was not so much building materials in the city. Building a stone house on the top of the city, not to mention the material problem, even the construction period was very long and inconvenient. Moreover, the investment was also huge...

But Marin realized from the scene just now that since the musketeers only need to cover the rain when it rains, why not make an active rain-covering thing to block the musketeers?

When it rains, I lifted this thing up to the city wall for musketeers. But when it rained, I carried it down... Anyway, there are many people in the country...

The Rockets can indeed burn the tent that blocks the rain, but when the rain stops, let Min Zhuang carry it down. It doesn’t make sense for you to launch the rocket…

Thinking of this, Marin immediately found Targfaht, the Speaker of the Grand Grand Lübeck, to discuss the matter. Originally, Marin planned to create a batch of large umbrellas similar to those used in later generations when setting up stalls. However, in this era, Europe had no umbrellas at all, so there were no craftsmen and accessories to make umbrellas. When the craftsmen developed umbrellas, the battle might be over.

Then, Marin considered using a tent. However, there were problems with the tent. The tent was made of fabric and could not resist bows and arrows. Although the enemy's bows and arrows could not use rockets to burn tents when it rained. However, arrows could also shoot through the tent. Once the tent fabric was cut by sharp arrows, it would have no rainproof effect...

Marin also thought of building a brick and stone hut on the city wall, but the construction period was too long. Seeing that the enemy arrived in a few days, we must come up with a solution as soon as possible...

Marin's fingers hit the table, making a muffled sound. Then, Marin's gaze could not move away from the table...

Suddenly, Marin got under the table, put his fingers together, and made a shooting posture:

"Bang--" Marin also gave a voiceover. Kahn, who acted as a bodyguard, was stunned. He couldn't think of why Marin suddenly got under the table and made a childlike move. So an idea came to his mind - is the young master crazy?

But Marin quickly came out from under the table, then slapped the table all over the floor and said:

"In this form, it can block the rain and also block the arrows thrown!"

Then, Marin hurried to the residence of Speaker Tagfaht. Kahn hurriedly chased him out as soon as he saw it - he was worried that Marin would be crazy, so he wanted to follow him and see...

Fortunately, Marin was not crazy. He just went to Speaker Tagfaht to discuss the urgent construction of the wooden shed...

Marin designed a wooden shed, which has an open front and back, and its top and four legs are made of wooden boards. The two sides are hung with cloth. The cloth on both sides is for rain protection. The wooden boards above the head are for the shooting of archers under the city.

The archers under the city wall cannot directly shoot musketeers with battlements cover, and can only shoot in a curve. Most of the bows and arrows come down from above. Therefore, if you want to resist, it is best to use wooden boards on it.

This rectangular wooden shed can accommodate two people, one in front is naturally a musket shooter, and the other in the back is responsible for loading the muskets. Each wooden shed is placed in a lookout for easy shooting.

Moreover, because the mezzanine has to be extended out of the city wall and shoot downwards. Therefore, this wooden shed has a board in front and a board extending to the front, like a duck tongue in the baseball cap, just to block the rain when the mezzanine is extended out and prevent the mezzanine from getting damp.

Because only the roof and four brackets are made of wooden, and only rags on both sides are used to block the rain, this wooden shed is not only convenient for shooting on rainy days, but also very convenient to move. Two civilians can take the city wall or lift it up.

Soon, under the arrangement of the Speaker of Tagfaht, the carpenters of Lubek made a sample. After testing, this wooden plank shed was very beneficial to the shooting of the mezzanine on rainy days. Moreover, it was also very convenient to remove it. Therefore, this extremely simple wooden plank shed was called a movable shooting shed.

After the test was successful, the Speaker of Tagfaht immediately ordered the carpenters of more than a dozen shipyards in Lubek to make all their efforts to create such shooting sheds for the convenience of Marin's melee gunmen shooting on rainy days.

Moreover, on weekdays, if the rectangular sheds of this kind of activity are hung with cloth in front and back to prevent the wind, they can still be used as a single tent, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

As for whether thousands of movable shooting sheds can be built in a few days? This is not a problem at all. Because Lubeck is the shipbuilding center of this era, with more than a dozen shipyards and thousands of shipbuilders. Every shipbuilder is an excellent carpenter. Besides, the shipyard should not store too much wood...

As for the cost? Is it a matter for the wealthy Lubeck?
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