CSS10500 Load Balancing Multiple Hosts

Hello,
I have a CSS10500 switch and i would like to load balance the connections to a couple of hosts. My setup (roughly) is as follows
int e1-RTR1-------->int e2-Host1
-------->int e3-Host2
and
int e5-RTR2------>int e6-Host1
------>int e7-Host2
How can i assing different interfaces to the two sets of hosts??? I want all ports (0-65535 and tcp/udp) to go to both sets. I made a circuit vlan 1 and assigned it an ip address but i cannot make a circuit vlan 2 and when i assign multiple addresses to vlan1 i cannot somehow assign interfaces to each ip.
Is there anything i can do??
Sorry for all the fuss i am new to the CSS concept.

Let's start with the basic
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/ps792/products_configuration_example09186a008009438d.shtml
If you can't make it work, get back to us with whatever you have configured.
Verify that you can ping the CSS from the router and the server.
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