The Germans had spent countless man-hours over the past few months clearing the mines that remained between their fortifications and the enemy, which lie beyond no-man's-land. It was a task that the French could only sit by and watch as the enemy prepared for their major offensive.
As all means to repel or destroy the German Armor proved wildly ineffective. But this roar of tank engines across the entirety of the western front had given the French a false sense of security on a psychological level.
They were so accustomed to hearing such sounds that they would not think twice of it, to the point where today September 22nd 1916, the German 8th army situation on the borders of Germany and Luxembourg began its push. Which was accompanied by hordes of German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian soldiers across the entirety of the Western front.