The Battle for Ponyville

The first of many.
The Battle for Ponyville was the very first conflict in Discord's Return, lasting only a few hours.

After Apple Acres was burned to the ground, the hordes of kangaroo began to march on Ponyville from the north, where a bridge crosses over a river.

Preparation
Big Macintosh, who arrived approximately one hour beforehand with Fluttershy, went straight to the mayor and, with her permission, began to organize a militia. Because the mayor had served in the White Army in her youth, she was permitted to keep her service saddle-rifle, which she willingly handed over to Big Macintosh.

Ponyville, luckily, was surprisngly well-armed. Almost every citizen had a firearm and knew how to use it, and almost all of the ones who did owned more than one. Pinkie Pie herself had twenty-three firearms to share. Organizing a militia was not hard because almost every citizen was willing to fight.

Big Macintosh had those who were unarmed, with the help of unicorns, create barricades to protect the east, south, and west from any sort of flank-attack. Because of the relatively high unicorn population in Ponyville, this was all finished in less than thirty minutes. Several rows of sharpened sticks and poles were set up on every flank but the north, effectively preventing the kangaroo from approaching from those angles.

On the northern flank, earth ponies and pegasi worked on digging out trenches. Because of the very wet soil near the river, this was easy, and enough trenches to hold the 196 volunteers were dug out within 45 minutes.

The Battle
Under Mac's command, the battle went very smoothly for the ponies. Dug in like ticks, Macintosh's militia could not be defeated. After four minutes of attacking from the only available direction, the kangaroo began to have to climb over their own dead. When the kangaroo brought out cannon they only managed to fire one barrage into the town, which hurt no one, before the unicorns obliterated them. The battle ended in retreat for the kangaroo.

Only one pony was wounded. A pegasus named Whitestring was shot through the neck. He survived and fully recovered.