第三个自豪的战斗：Battle to Defend Height 1211
人民军1211高地守卫战。这个被朝鲜拍摄了电影。
联合国军以其优势火力推至三八线以北地区，设置了堪萨斯——怀俄明防线，力争确保战线的稳定，相机对中朝联军进行重大打击，限制战争规模并在谈判桌上施加压力。7月底，开城谈判陷于僵局，李奇微指示第8集团军发动有限进攻作战，从而得到美韩方面所要求的战线。这次作战，中朝方面称为“夏季攻势”。
第8集团军司令范佛里特制定了进攻计划，预备夺取东部战线华川水库以东的亥安盆地以北的山岭。1951年夏，大进大退的朝鲜战争运动战阶段基本结束。亥安盆地是一个圆形山谷，四面是一系列山峰环绕。6月间，朝鲜人民军控制了这里，可以居高临下俯瞰联合国军的动向，其炮火能直接轰击到堪萨斯防线，对美韩军是极大的威胁。因此，这里已被范佛里特盯了很久。范佛里特动用了美10军和韩1军团，包括美陆1师、韩军首都师、韩5师、韩8师和韩11师。防守方则是朝鲜人民军第二军团，军团长崔贤，下辖第2师、第13师、第27师和预备队第24旅团，共20000余人。人民军在每座险峻的山顶上都构筑了阵地，配置机枪、迫击炮和新补充来的榴弹炮等武器，具有坚强的守卫决心。
每一个阵地都数次易手，双方反复争夺，战况十分惨烈。
以下是美军记载的这次战斗。
The battle to defend Height 1211 during the Korean War was one of the fiercest battles in the war.
The height situated in the east of Kangwon Province was a major strongpoint of the Korean People's Army. The U.S. made desperate efforts to conquer the height at any cost.
From the first day of the attack, the Americans hurled huge troops and combat technical equipment into the battle for the height, showered 30,000-40,000 shells and bombs on the height and made scores of wavy attacks in a day.
Rocks were broken, trees uprooted, soil burned and the height lowered by the heavy bombing and shelling of the U.S.
The defenders threw down rocks and fought a hand-to-hand fight with the enemy when they ran out of ammunition.
The battle continued day and night.
One day in September 1951, President Kim Il Sung rang up the army corps commander on the front line and told him to take good care of soldiers
because they were all priceless treasures of the country.
Moved by his care, the soldiers of the People's Army pledged to defend the height of their fatherland at the cost of their lives. They silenced enemy pillboxes with their chest, jumped into enemy soldiers with a bundle of grenades and linked communications line with their body. The civilians carried food, cartridges and shells to the height and repaired roads and bridges despite a shower of bullets.
Thus, the height was defended with credit.
During the battle, tens of thousands of American-led U.N. troops were killed or taken prisoner, more than 40 enemy planes were shot down and some 60 tanks and large quantities of weapons and combat technical equipment were captured or destroyed.
They called the height "heart-break ridge" as it hurt their minds when they saw it. They also called its valley "trap valley" as it allowed no intruder to escape alive.
我给大家简单翻译以下：看得出，人民军应该自豪。
1211高地战是朝鲜战争期间最残酷的战斗之一。高地坐落在人民军主要战略要点康原省以东。美军花费了不可估量的代价也没能前进一步。
第一天战斗开始，美军就投入数量庞大的部队和战斗装备争夺高地。投下了3到4万炸弹在高地。岩石都被炸碎了，数目连根拔起，土壤烧焦，高地高度被炸弹削掉不少。
朝鲜人民军到最后弹尽粮绝，使用石块战斗，甚至肉搏。战斗从白天持续到黑夜。1951年9月的一天，金日成在前线打电话给前线指挥官，要求照顾好战士，他们是祖国无价之宝。由于受到金日成慰劳的鼓舞，战士们受到感动，奋不顾身，舍生忘死为了祖国而战。
他们用自己的生命，和掩体内的敌人同归于尽，使用集束手榴弹跳进敌人，有的用自身作为电话线的导体，连接战地。老百姓搬运木材，子弹箱，炮弹到高地，老百姓修路修桥在枪林弹雨中。就这样，高地守卫有了保障。
在整个战斗期间。数万美军领导的联合国军被杀或者被俘，联合国军超过40架飞机被击落，60个坦克和大量的武器被缴获或者摧毁。美军称这个高地为“伤心岭”。也称为“峡谷陷阱”，意思是，这里不允许入侵或者有活着的生命逃离。
