if only hed had the men he had asked for , he could have dropped them off at intervals on the way in they could have warned him of any patrols on the way back a lot of ifsfrantically he swerved rightit was a job to see the bloody trees they seemed to charge out of the dark any darker and the enemy were using their headlights when they topped a rise , they shone out like searchlights , probing the sky before dropping back into the trees with a jolt .