I read the OP as saying all five indexers are in a cluster. Since you mention force-freezing data I presume you don't need to keep the data on these indexers. Is that right? If you don't want to keep the data then just remove the indexers from each SH's list of search peers then shut them down. If you do want to keep the data then the buckets will have to be converted into cluster format and copied to the other indexers. Then each clustered indexer will have to be restarted to import the new buckets.
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