Anning: "Oh, I just felt that it wasn't quite right for the troops to always sing military songs that praise the King, since we are the National Guard, not the King's army. So, I improvised a new military song on the spot."
The military song that Anning came up with was a copy of the future "Three Main Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points for Attention." This tune is easy to memorize, and the troops can learn it after a few lessons. Moreover, the lyrics reinforce military discipline and help to promote it among local people—there couldn't be a more suitable military song than this.
The only problem is, the music for this song was taken from the military song used by Yuan Shikai at his small station during training exercises, "Commander Training Song," which is said to be from the German military song "Emperor Wilhelm's Training Song."
Using a German military song on French soil has a sense of black humor to it.
