The invention provides a hybrid network coding method. When physical-layer network coding (PNC) communication can be executed, the PNC communication is executed preferentially. When the PNC communication cannot be executed, high-layer network coding (HNC) communication is executed. Non-network coding (NNC) communication is executed only when both the PNC communication and the HNC communication cannot be executed. Three caches are arranged, and an NNC cache in the PNC is subdivided into an NNC cache 1 and an NNC cache 2, so that NC data packets can be generated by coding for transmission under the condition that both the two NNC caches are not empty in order to increase the network throughput. The HNC communication is added, so that the times of the NNC communications can be reduced, and the throughput of a network is further increased.