You are asked to cut off all the trees in a forest for a golf event. The forest is represented as an m x n matrix. In this matrix: 0 means the cell cannot be walked through. 1 represents an empty cell that can be walked through. A number greater than 1 represents a tree in a cell that can be walked through, and this number is the tree's height. In one step, you can walk in any of the four directions: north, east, south, and west. If you are standing in a cell with a tree, you can choose whether to cut it off. You must cut off the trees in order from shortest to tallest. When you cut off a tree, the value at its cell becomes 1 (an empty cell). Starting from the point (0, 0), return the minimum steps you need to walk to cut off all the trees.