What does it mean to take the lead and under what circumstances can it be used?

In difficult situations, when someone needs to be at the front to take the lead, the word "lead the front" can be used to describe it.

Word definition:

1. Fight at the forefront. ?

Quoted from the modern Wu Yunduo's "Dedicate Everything to the Party and Make Rifle Grenades": "This place is surrounded by mountains. When the Japanese reached the mountainside, they sat in the valley to rest and ordered the puppet troops to take the lead."

2. It is a metaphor for taking the lead in dealing with emergencies. ?

Quoted from Mao Dun's "The Comedy of Moving": "If we must fight, then wouldn't the people next door be singing every day to take the lead?"

Extended information

The story of the frontline

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Rouran tribe, a nomadic tribe from the north, continued to harass people southward. The Northern Wei regime stipulated that one man from each family should go to the front line. However, Mulan's father was old and frail and could not go to the battlefield, and her younger brother was still young. Therefore, Mulan decided to join the army in her father's place, and began her more than ten years of military life. This is about Mulan joining the army in her father's place. story.

However, in the flood-fighting team in the Anqing section of the Yangtze River, there is a story about a father and son soldier. They worked hand in hand to rescue, fight together, and defend their homeland side by side. Since entering the main flood season, water levels in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have continued to rise, approaching or even exceeding historical extreme values. The officers and soldiers of the Anhui Armed Police Corps, together with the cadres and the masses in the disaster area, braved heavy rain and scorching sun to fight on the front line of flood relief, clearing obstacles and patrolling embankments, relocating people, and conducting rescue and disaster relief.

His name is Xie Xuekun, 28 years old this year, and a soldier of Class 5 of the Mobile Squadron of the Anqing Detachment of the Armed Police. It rained continuously for a month, and the Yangtze River was in danger. On July 11, the mobile squadron, as the first echelon, began to carry out flood fighting and rescue missions. Xie Xuekun accompanied the team to fight in various sections of the polders in Haikou Town, Daguan District, and Hongpu Town, Huaining. During the mission, he was always at the forefront, fighting on the front line to block pipe surges and seal gaps. Mud covered his trouser legs, sweat soaked through the back of his clothes, his eyes were red and swollen, and his shoulders were bruised with blood.