The invention relates to a preparation method of a network-like carbon-loaded iron-based compound material and an application of the network-like carbon-loaded iron-based compound material in a lithium-sulfur battery, and belongs to the field of electrochemistry; the method comprises the following steps of taking slightly oxidized graphene as a substrate, taking ferric nitrate nonahydrate as an iron source, taking glucose hydrothermal carbon as a carbon source of iron carbide and a pore-forming substrate, taking ammonia gas generated in the high-temperature pyrolysis process of melamine as a nitrogen source of an iron-nitrogen compound, and meanwhile, enabling ammonia to corrode the glucose hydrothermal carbon substrate to generate a net-shaped structure. The method has the beneficial effects that 1) the process is simple, and the product cost is low; 2) the obtained positive electrode material has a rich hole structure and ion and electron transport channels, the conductivity of the material can be improved, and the loss of the polysulfide compound can be effectively inhibited, the stability of the electrode material is remarkably improved, and the electrochemical performance is improved; and 4) the adsorption and catalysis of the polysulfide compound are achieved by utilizing the synergistic effect of the iron carbide and the iron-nitrogen compound, and the catalytic action can be used for accelerating the reaction dynamics of the lithium-sulfur battery, so that the transition of the soluble polysulfide compound to insoluble sulfide is accelerated, and the shuttle effectis greatly inhibited.